People: Aphorists

George Bernard Shaw applied an old attitude to a new subject, as usual
appeared to have a new angle. "The atom bomb has made war
unprofitable," said he, "so it's already outmoded. Who wants to use an
atom bomb?"

Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such
fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald
turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in
its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on
Winston Churchill"[His] opposition . . . has been childishly futile";...